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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by NOT A BOOK

    The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by NOT A BOOK

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • Zero Hour by Will Hill

    Zero Hour by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jamie Carpenter and the rest of Department 19 know when the world will end. It ends when Zero Hour comes. And Zero Hour…is here.As Dracula continues his rise, Department 19 is desperately trying to keep the forces of evil at bay. Then, an unexpected source brings a ray of hope, sending Jamie and Larissa on a dangerous mission to find the one thing that could turn back the darkness for good...
  • The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nonie Broussard is a medium—a closet medium. After losing her job at a local T-shirt factory, Nonie has to find a way to make ends meet. Not easy in a small town like Clay Point, LA. Two opportunities come her way, however, neither of them easy for someone with her abilities...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction
  • The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    >Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls. Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is still restoring her Charleston house and doesn't expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn't come alone, and the spirits that accompanied Nola don't seem willing to leave..
  • The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

    The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black stone...
  • Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor’s windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back—someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it’s too late. She’s already falling...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts.To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys...
  • The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman

    The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It appears that the unlovely village of Underhowle is home to a serial killer. But as the police hunt for the bodies of more young women, Rev. Merrily Watkins fears that the detective in charge has become blinkered by ambition. Meanwhile, Merrily has more personal problems, like the anonymous phone calls, the candles and incense left burning in her church, and the alleged angelic visitations...
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    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their home at night. Their seven-year-old son's invisible friends may not be imaginary at all, but the restless spirits of dead children...
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    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this darkly magical, romantic YA fantasy debut, a closeted teenage psychic in small-town Washington foresees the death of his sworn enemy, and is forced to work with him to save his life. Sparks fly, but the dead are restless, and some ghosts don't want to stay buried...Perfect for fans of The Raven Cycle, Cemetery Boys and Sixteen Souls...
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead...
  • Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated to the town by the long-dead heiress...
  • The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

    The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seven girls tied by time.Five powers that bind.One curse to lock the horror away.One attic to keep the monsters at bay.After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal...
  • The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she's never visited the property, Danielle's not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn't expect to find one of the house's previous owners still in residence...
  • The Hidden by Jessica Verday

    The Hidden by Jessica Verday

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A love that knows no bounds. Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny. Theirs is a bond that transcends even death. But as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very hard choices to make...
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar...
  • Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure by Dean Koontz

    Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    “[Odd Thomas is] one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction.” —The Virginian-PilotThere's room at the inn. But you might not get out...
  • Ghost Huntress: The Journey by Marley Gibson

    Ghost Huntress: The Journey by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teen psychic Kendall Moorehead is about to embark on the most dangerous and shocking ghost hunt of her life. After all, it isn't every day that the ghost of Princess Diana steps in as a personal spirit guide. But Shy Di isn't the only surprise awaiting Kendall and her team of teen paranormal superstars as they begin a whirlwind tour of Europe with renowned TV medium Oliver Bates...
  • Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and - dare she look into a mirror - see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only one person to turn to for support: Etienne. As sexy as he is mysterious, Miranda can't help but be drawn to him. He believes her; he wants to help her...
  • Les aventures de Johnny Dixon: Le crâne du sorcier by John Bellairs

    Les aventures de Johnny Dixon: Le crâne du sorcier by John Bellairs

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass discover an old heirloom clock, the terror begins. The professor suddenly vanishes, and Johnny is left to solve the mystery--alone.Inside the clock Johnny discovers a miniature room, a room exactly like the one in which a murder took place long ago. And from the inside the little room Johnny pockets a tiny skull with magical powers...
  • The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand

    The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Olivia wants a new life—and her wish might be granted by the unlikeliest allies. A heartfelt, gently Gothic novel from Claire Legrand that School Library Journal calls a “not-too-scary ghost story.”Olivia Stellatella is having a rough year...
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Unholy Cause by Joe Schreiber

    The Unholy Cause by Joe Schreiber

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A "Supernatural" novel that reveals a previously unseen adventure for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series Way back in April 1862, Confederate Captain Jubal Beauchamp leads a charge across a Georgia battleground... Fast forward to 2009 and a civil war re-enactment becomes all too real. When Sam and Dean head down south to investigate they find that history has got somewhat out of hand.
  • The Mortician's Daughter: One Foot in the Grave by C.C. Hunter

    The Mortician's Daughter: One Foot in the Grave by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first exciting novel in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author C. C. Hunter! Her dad's job is with the dead... and he's bringing his work home with him. Once again, seventeen-year-old Riley Smith is the new kid in school and her dad's career has her back to being dubbed a freak. Truth is, she's a much bigger freak than her classmates think...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide...
  • Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence -- and a long-kept secret.Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors -- especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white...
  • Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist...
  • The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

    The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank - or what is left of Frank - waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before...
  • Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

    Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away...
  • The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

    The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Deep in the shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town.My name is Amelia Gray. They call me The Graveyard Queen. I've been commissioned to restore an old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but I'm coming to think I have another purpose here...
  • Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

    Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New Orleans haunted-tour manager Nikki DuMonde claims to have seen her newest employee Andy in her bedroom at the exact time Andy was apparently murdered. No-one believes her, apart from Brent Blackhawk, a half-Irish half-Lakota paranormal investigator who realizes that Nikki must listen to the dead if she wants to keep on living...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Peace by Gene Wolfe

    Peace by Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls "one of the literary giants of science fiction." The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living in a small midwestern town, reveals a miraculous dimension. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself...
  • Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Ryan Douglass, Kalynn Bayron

    Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Ryan Douglass, Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible, exclusively featuring queer authors of color putting fresh spins on classic horror tropes and tales.No matter its name or occasion, Halloween is more than a Hallmark holiday, it’s a symbol of transformation...
  • The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs

    The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Collapsed in a weird trance, Johnny Dixon is dying. Professor Childermass and Fergie soon learn the horrifying reason: Johnny is possessed by the spirit of the evil Warren Windrow. In a desperate effort to find a clue that will save Johnny's life, the professor and Fergie race to the gloomy Windrow estate. But demonic forces are waiting for them, and suddenly they're fighting for their own lives...
  • An Open Spook by E.J. Copperman

    An Open Spook by E.J. Copperman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Haunted guesthouse owner Alison Kerby may have only recently discovered her ability to communicate with ghosts, but for her mother Loretta, it’s been a lifelong gift. As Alison prepares her Jersey Shore guesthouse for what promises to be a huge storm, Loretta helps out by tackling a different issue when the winds blow in an unexpected visitor: the ghost of Sgt. Robert Elliot...
  • Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young Australian cellist Maisie Fielding is bored with her career and her overpowering, manipulative musical family. Faking a wrist injury, she takes time off to return to England, her mother's home country, to search for her own roots and to find out more about her grandmother, a 'white witch' who settled in a bleak village on the North Yorkshire coast...
  • Bayou Dogs by Tony Abbott

    Bayou Dogs by Tony Abbott

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tony Abbott combines the best of the action, suspense, and humor that has made DROON a hit for almost a decade -- and takes it to the next level in this spooky new middle grade series.Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek's brother Ronny isn't himself. No, really. Ronny's body has been taken over by the long-dead soul of a man named Virgil Black...
  • 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town...
  • Chasing Ghosts by Dean Cole

    Chasing Ghosts by Dean Cole

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haunted pasts. Terrifying apparitions. Dark secrets.Quentin Strange is … well, strange. But it isn’t just his anachronistic sayings and dress sense, the fact that he’s a socially awkward, book-loving loner who’s possibly still a virgin at nearly thirty. He’s seeing and hearing things. Odd things. Ghostly things...
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    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Ghost Chronicles by Marlo Berliner, S.P. McConnell

    The Ghost Chronicles by Marlo Berliner, S.P. McConnell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can Michael get to heaven before the devil gets him first, and if it means leaving Sarah is he sure he still wants to go?Michael Andrews had everything - a loving family, a great girlfriend and a promising basketball career. That was before the accident that took his life. Now, he's a ghost, wandering among the living, struggling to understand why he's stuck. All he wants is to move on...
  • Demon Demon Burning Bright, Whisperings book four by Linda Welch

    Demon Demon Burning Bright, Whisperings book four by Linda Welch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I would tear the world apart for Rio. Would you do the same for Royal?”Royal disappears. He is a demon with inhuman abilities who moves between worlds at will. He could be anywhere. He leaves me a clue that takes me to Bel-Athaer, home of the Gelpha, but the High House councilors kick me out.I‘m going back in...
  • Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

    Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘A great death is in the air.’Arlo is lost. He thought he had everything figured out. Go to university, fall in love, get a job.But life doesn’t always work like that, and before he has a chance to figure it out, he dies.In the space of a night, Arlo is plunged into a world of blood and immortality and finds a group of people who swear to always have his back...
  • The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering...
  • The House on Tradd Street by Karen White

    The House on Tradd Street by Karen White

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog, and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries...
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